A funeral service was held at the East Riding Crematorium on Friday 4 December for Mrs Enid Jones, of Londesborough Road, Cranswick, who died in Hospital on Friday 20 November. She was aged 87 years.
The service was conducted by the Rev John McNaughton and the organist was Mr Peter Maw.
Enid was born on the 5 February, 1928, in Bath, Somerset. After three or four years she moved with her parents to Langwith, near Mansfield. She attended the local primary school and in 1939 became a pupil at the Central Selective School for Girls at Shirebrook. During her younger years she was taught to play the piano and later to play the organ in the local Church at Whaley Thorns.
At a young age she elected to be a pen pal and started communicating with Nadine. They have corresponded and phoned regularly to this day and Nadine now lives in Colarado Springs.
After leaving school in 1943 Enid became school secretary to the headmaster in two local schools and worked evenings and weekends as an usherette at Langwith Cinema.
She later found a clerical job in a firm in Mansfield where she worked until her marriage to Cyril on the 23 August, 1952. Owing to Cyril being promoted to chief clerk at Boston Locomotive Depot they moved to that area and bought a house in Wyberton and later moved to Woodside, nearer Boston Town. During this time Enid worked for a chemist in his office on clerical duties.
In 1968 Cyril was transferred to Immingham and they moved to Habrough, a village nearby where Enid found work in a chemical company – Laporte Synres and later worked as a library assistant in Immingham,
In 1973 Cyril was promoted to Hull Maintenance Engineers office and they moved to Leconfield for one year before moving to Hutton Cranswick. Enid found a clerical position in the East Yorkshire Council highways department in Driffield and retired from there in June 1989.
Enid had many interests including music, films, reading Book Club issues received on a regular basis. She enjoyed holidays in Great Britain and abroad. She also enjoyed motor racing, knitting and cooking.
She was fully active until August 2012 when she fractured her left femur and was wheelchair bound requiring full time care until she died.
Chief Mourners: Cyril Jones (husband), Audrey Wardman (sister in law), Margaret & Don Seals (sister in law & husband), Ian & Judith Jones (brother in law & wife), John Fullarton (brother in law), Rachael & Gary Smith, Clair & John Cowan (nieces & husbands), Elizabeth Jones (niece) also rep Monica Jones (sister in law), Lisa Bessa (niece) also rep Julian Bessa (husband), Helen Gibson (niece) also rep Tim Gibson (husband), Andrew Seals (nephew) also rep Tracy Seals (wife), Peter & Coral Seals, David & Michelle Jones (nephews & wives), Tim Wardman (nephew) also rep Neal & John Wardman.
Others present: Alan Clark, Julie Hardy, Zoe Gill, Keith & Marilyn Benfell, Mr & Mrs M & V McKnight rep Richard Megginson, Mr H Hopkins rep Janet Hopkins, Margaret Collinson rep Mr & Mrs R Hooper, Judith & Graham Tock.